01 Jul 034: How to Run a Remote Business
In this episode of Drop and Give Me 20, guest host Erin Ward interviews Laura Renner, Founder of Freedom Makers and Diana Jaquith, Co-Founder of WISE Advise + Assist Team.
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Freedom Makers’ mission is to support military spouses and their families by creating a path to stable, uninterrupted employment and income. Their virtual assistants are military spouses who, due to their association with the military, understand how to be flexible and deliver top-notch service.
The Wise Advise + Assist Team helps businesses to strive, strategize and accelerate growth, while both empowering and employing military spouses.
They will be discussing how to run a remote business and how to manage both the clients and the business. Today’s episode is a must listen. Tune in and enjoy!
Important topics they discuss:
- [02:02] Their remote businesses
- [03:26] Running a remote business for military spouses/veterans is a good fit
- [08:46] Sticking to the model of doing things virtually
- [10:26] Tools they’re using to make things easy for them
- [14:36] Managing their team remotely
- [16:34] The reason Laura’s team is called “Freedom Makers”
- [18:54] Something they’re doing that might be unique from a remote aspect
- [19:43] Things Diana and her team does to build organizational culture
- [25:50] Their biggest light bulb moment while creating their remote business
Quote:
“In the virtual environment, what we do is we put out our why. Why do we exist? We exist because we believe that everyone should be able to have a career life and family… For our clients, we want them to be able to grow their business and spend more time with their families, and have a life…” – Diana Jaquith
